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Someone help me please Winfixer 2005 Victim [RESOLVED]

ant7783

Posted 18 November 2005 - 01:54 PM

ant7783

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I have run the vundofixer from norton, and it seems to find nothing. I have tried to force deleting the file and it says that it doesnt exist. I have tried to kill box it and it doesnt work, it just says that it cannot be deleted. I have looked through the directories and the file is still there. I have attached an image of what the popup window from Norton looks like.

Crustyoldbloke

Posted 18 November 2005 - 03:13 PM

Crustyoldbloke

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Hello ant7783 and welcome to Geeks to Go

As an introduction, please note that I am not Superhuman, I do not know everything, but what I do know has taken me years to learn. I am happy to pass on this information to you, but please bear in mind that I am also fallible.

Please note that you should have Administrator rights to perform the fixes. Also note that multiple identity PC’s (family PC’s) present a different problem; please tell me if your PC has more than one individual’s setting, but continue with the fix.

Before we get underway, you may wish to print these instructions for easy reference during the fix, although please be aware that many of the required URLs are hyperlinks in the red names shown on your screen. Part of the fix may require you to be in Safe Mode, which will not allow you to access the internet, or my instructions!

You have a badly infected PC with quite a mixture of malware and 10 Trojans that need to be eradicated. I also saw Nail and the dreaded Virtumonde (Vundo B) infection. Let’s see what we can do with the first sweep, it will take about 4 sweeps I think. This sweep will concentrate on Vundo.

I note that you are running HijackThis from Desktop; please create a new folder for it (for example C:\Program Files\Hijackthis\Hijackthis.exe) and move the programme into it. It is very important you do this before anything else since backup files can be deleted if they are not within their own folder!

After the files are extracted, please reboot your computer into Safe Mode. You can do this by restarting your computer and continually tapping the F8 key until a menu appears. Use your up arrow key to highlight Safe Mode then hit enter.

Once in safe mode open the VundoFix folder and doubleclick on KillVundo.bat

You will first be presented with a warning.
It should look like this

VundoFix V2.15 by Atri
By using VundoFix you agree that you are doing so at your own risk
Press enter to continue....

At this point press enter once.

Next you will see:

Please Type in the filepath as instructed by the forum staff
and then press enter:

At this point please type the following file path (make sure to enter it exactly as below!):

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ddcyy.dll

Press Enter to continue with the fix.

Next you will see:

Please type in the second filepath as instructed by the forum
staff then press enter:

At this point please type the following file path (make sure to enter it exactly as below!): C:\WINDOWS\system32\yycdd.*

Press Enter to continue with the fix.

The fix will run then HijackThis will open, if it does not open automatically please open it manually.

Open Cleanup! by double-clicking the icon on your desktop (or from the Start > All Programmes menu).Set the programme up as follows:Click "Options..."Move the arrow down to "Custom CleanUp!"Put a check next to the following (Make sure nothing else is checked!):

Go to Start>Run and type Services.msc then hit OKScroll down and find this service:

System Startup Service (SvcProc)

When you find it, double-click on it. In the next window that opens, click the Stop button, then click on Properties and under the General Tab, change the Startup Type to Disabled. Now hit Apply and then OK.

Run HiJackThis. Click on None of the above, just start the program. Now, click on the Config button (bottom right), then click on Misc Tools, then click on Delete an NT Service a window will pop up. Enter this item into that field (copy and paste):

SvcProc

Click OK.

It should pull up information about the service, when it asks if you want to reboot now click YES

Install Ewido Security Suite.

Install Ewido security suite

When installing, under "Additional Options" uncheck..

Install background guard

Install scan via context menu

You will need to update Ewido to the latest definition files.

On the left hand side of the main screen click update.

Then click on Start Update.

The update will start and a progress bar will show the updates being installed.
(the status bar at the bottom will display "Update successful")

If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Ewido.Ewido manual updatesDo NOT run a scan yet.

Please install Revised Nailfix Utility , unzip it to the desktop but please do NOT run it yet.

Next, please reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:1) Restart your computer2) After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8.3) Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear4) Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.

For additional help in booting into Safe Mode, see the following site:

Once in Safe Mode, please double-click on nailfix.exe. Click "Next" in the setup, then make sure "Run Nailfix" is checked and click "Finish". Your desktop and icons will disappear and reappear, and a window should open and close very quickly --- this is normal.

Launch Ewido, there should be an icon on your desktop, double-click it.

The programme will now open to the main screen.

When you run Ewido for the first time, you will get a warning "Database could not be found!". Click OK.

Once the updates are installed do the following:

Click on scanner

Click on Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.

You will be prompted to clean the first infection.

Select "Perform action on all infections", then proceed.

Once the scan has completed, there will be a button located on the bottom of the screen named Save report

Click Save report.

Save the report .txt file to your desktop and include it in your reply.

Now close Ewido security suite.

Please re-open HiJackThis and scan. Check the boxes next to all the entries listed below.

Return to Killbox, go to the File menu, and choose "Paste from Clipboard".

Click the red-and-white "Delete File" button. Click "Yes" at the Delete on Reboot prompt. Click "Yes" at the reboot now prompt.

If you receive a message such as: "Component 'MsComCtl.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid." when trying to run TheKillbox, click download and run missingfilesetup.exe. Then try TheKillbox again.

Now we must hide the files we revealed earlier by reversing the process, this is an important safeguard to stop important system files being deleted by accident.

There is almost certainly bound to be some junk (leftover bits and pieces) on your system that is doing nothing but taking up space. I would recommend that you run CCleaner. Install it, update it, check the default setting in the left-hand pane, ensure you uncheck old prefetch data found under the system tab, then click Analyze> Run Cleaner. You may be fairly surprised by how much it finds. Also click Issues then Scan for issues – fix selected issues

Post back a fresh HijackThis log (from normal mode) and I will take another look.

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Crustyoldbloke

Posted 19 November 2005 - 08:31 AM

Crustyoldbloke

Old Malware Surgeon with a shaky scalpel

Retired Staff

15,130 posts

Hello again Antony

You should by now be seeing a difference in performance. There is another fix to be done and because I saw a lot of different names in the Ewido log, I am assuming that there is more than one profile on this PC. Please tell me how many other profiles exist and please ensure that other profiles only have limited rights.

You may want to print out these instructions for reference, since you will have to restart your computer during the fix.

Please download AproposFix from here:AproposFixSave it to your desktop but do NOT run it yet.

Then please reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:1) Restart your computer2) After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8.3) Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear4) Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.

Once in Safe Mode, please double-click aproposfix.exe and unzip it to the desktop. Open the aproposfix folder on your desktop and run RunThis.bat. Follow the prompts.

When the tool is finished, please reboot back into normal mode, and post a new HijackThis log, along with the entire contents of the log.txt file in the aproposfix folder.

ant7783

Posted 19 November 2005 - 11:08 AM

ant7783

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There are a total of 5 accounts on this PC. I have changed the other 4 to Limited Access, and then ran the next tasks you ask me to do. The computer is performing much better, there has actually been about 4 gigs of space that has been freed up on the hard drive.